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Annie K.
Member since Apr-02-04

Annie Kappel
This profile needs an update badly, but I don't have the time... :)
My YouTube channel, featuring pronunciations of non-English chess player names: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieK1...
I'm 45 y/o, of Transylvanian origin, living in Israel since childhood. I speak English (no, really), Hungarian (great language!), and Hebrew (if I must, which is often, for some reason).
Afflicted with an uncontrollable sense of humor and other highly controversial characteristics.
I learned chess as a child, but had no further opportunities to practice the game. Returned to it seriously around 2004, and have been hanging out here since.
Note: if I am not home (i.e., here), you can probably find me at the Domdaniel chessforum, the SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum, the visayanbraindoctor chessforum, or the chessgames.com chessforum! :)
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<My City of Moscow skits:>
<<<<<<>>>>> Kramnik's Party -> City of Moscow (kibitz #752)
<<<<<<>>>>> Sochi 2008: An F-Files Production -> City of Moscow (kibitz #774)
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<Game Collection: My GotD Puns>
<My favorites:>
All Your Baze Are Belong To Us - L Baze vs T Palmer, 2004 - GotD Mar-21-10
Y Yu No Claim Repetition? - Yu Yangyi vs M R Venkatesh, 2012 - GotD Jun-30-12
He Who Has E Tate is Lost - E Tate vs Y Shulman, 2001 - GotD Sep-22-16
How Many Roads Must Aman Walk Down? - S Shankland vs A Hambleton, 2014 - GotD Dec-23-16 (besides the obvious reason for the pun - a long King walk - note also the terms 'shank' and 'amble' embedded in the player names)
So me the Wei - W So vs Wei Yi, 2013 - GotD Jan-29-17
This Won't Borya Ider - B Ider vs Wei Yi, 2014 - GotD Apr-01-17 (follow-up to previous day's GotD, 'This Won't Borya')
Injun vs Engin' - Anand vs REBEL, 1997 - GotD Jan-06-2018
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<My other (linkable) site contributions:>
* The Player Names Pronunciation Project: http://www.chessgames.com/audio (or look for names with a loudspeaker icon in the Player Directory)
* Created on my suggestion: Biographer Bistro
* The first (now retired) Carlsen Dancing Rook: https://web.archive.org/web/2013040...
* The Caruana Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
* The Hou Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
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<<<<<<< MAJOR CHESS SITES <<>>>>>>>>>
<< Correspondence chess <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< ChessWorld -> http://www.chessworld.net
ChessWorld is my new main chess playing base. It's a rather restrictive site for non-paying members, but one of the best sites for paying members. The full features include excellent interface options and first class study and analysis resources. Nice community, likeable admin. Paid membership recommended.
< Update: while I will leave the original entry for ChessWorld as-is, I have by now been a member of the site for 2 years, and am now an admin there. I still think the site is one of the best, and the <other> admins are nice. :p >
My ChessWorld profile: http://www.letsplaychess.com/chessc...
< Queen Alice -> http://www.queenalice.com
Queen Alice is a charming site - well behaved players, decent admin, site design visually very pleasant. It is also completely free. Unfortunately, it lacks team play, the interface and resources are relatively simple, and it can be frustratingly slow (loading times). Nevertheless warmly recommended.
My QueenAlice profile: http://www.queenalice.com/player.ph...
< GameKnot -> http://gameknot.com
GameKnot is technically an excellent site, however I would not recommend it to the serious player who is looking for a site to settle in, due to an anti$ocial admin with ju$t one $ingle intere$t in hi$ $ite... oop$, $orry about the typo$.
My GameKnot profile: http://gameknot.com/stats.pl?annie-....
<< Other chess sites <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< FICS - the Free Internet Chess Server -> http://www.freechess.org
FICS is a great site to play chess at various faster time controls. There are a few difficulties getting started with it - first, it can be hard to find an email they will accept for registration; and second, there's a lot of site code to learn. But it's worth the hassle. :)
< ChessCube -> http://www.chesscube.com
ChessCube is quite good for fast time control games - provided you have a strong computer with broadband, as the site is entirely Flash based, which means it takes considerable computer resources to load. The site is nominally free, but heavily commercialized with all sorts of frills that can be purchased on it.
< Emrald Chess Tactics Server -> http://chess.emrald.net
Emrald is not a playing site - it is an invaluable tactical training asset. The only problem with it is also the difficulty of finding an "acceptable" email address to register with; but once past that hurdle, the site deserves nothing but praise.
It's a completely free site. You can play (practice) there as a guest, but they recommend registering, so that their program can keep track of your progress, in order to assign you puzzles best suited to your current level. I strongly second that recommendation. Register and always play logged in! It will make a huge difference in the site's ability to help you improve. An issue that scares some people off Emrald is that your progress is tracked via a "rating system", and because of the high importance they assign to speed, if you are not used to finding tactics fast, your rating will be very low at first - and many people are simply embarrassed to play logged in for that reason. Don't let it bother you! If you let embarrassment hold you back from letting the site help you improve to the best of its ability, you are only shooting yourself in the foot, and nobody else really cares that much anyway. ;p
A few of the people I've recommended Emrald to, had dropped it after a brief trial with remarks along the lines of "Oh, it's a blitz training site. I don't play blitz, so I don't like their obsession with speed." That reaction is absolutely wrong - and it's also one that many people who try the site out for only a short time are likely to have, if only because players who are used to being rated, say, 2000 and above, at corr. chess sites, are going to be annoyed and put on the defensive about finding themselves rated as low as 1200-1300 at Emrald, and will wish to dismiss the "insulting" site.
Yes, the Emrald rating system is heavily influenced by speed. But thinking that the site's purpose is blitz training is a complete misunderstanding of the lesson taught. The real purpose of Emrald practice is not to improve your blitz skills, but to train you to recognize dozens of tactical themes and opportunities AT A GLANCE - which will not only save you time in games of any time control, but is often the only way you will catch them AT ALL. Those brilliant tactical shots that can be seen in anyone's collection of "most memorable games", are often moves that will either occur to you as soon as you glance at the position, or you will miss them altogether. That's what Emrald really teaches - tactical chess intuition.
<Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position. --- <Viswanathan Anand>>
<Personally, I am of the view that if a strong master does not see such a threat at once he will not notice it, even if he analyses the position for twenty or thirty minutes. --- <Tigran Petrosian >>
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^ TL;DR.

Any other questions, feel free to ask. I might even answer. ;p

>> Click here to see Annie K.'s game collections.

   Current net-worth: 990 chessbucks
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   Annie K. has kibitzed 8212 times to chessgames [more...]

   Sep-15-20 S Mariotti vs A Geller, 1990

Annie K.: The Black player in this game has been corrected from Efim to Alexander Geller. Thanks. :)

   Sep-14-20 chessgames.com chessforum

Annie K.: <MissS> ah, yes, the key term "I challenged her" - that pretty much describes the previous post too, which was a blown out of all proportion tirade about the severity of the Player of the Day (not the entire homepage as claimed, which I check on almost every midnight, ...

   Sep-12-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)

Annie K.: Note: if you can't see the games, please set your game viewer to pgn4web (in the box under the game score) - but remember to set it back to our default viewer Olga in the end, as it is about to be upgraded soon, and will be the best of our viewers. :)

   Sep-04-20 Chessgames Bookie chessforum

Annie K.: The logs have been checked, and the top places are cleared. Congratulations to winner <moronovich>, the other 5 qualifiers, and the rest of the top 10! :) We have opened the Fall Leg, so if anything turns up, betting can start immediately, but we have no official schedule for

   Aug-01-20 Biographer Bistro

Annie K.: <Tab> The WCC pages are tied in with some special functions, and changing them can cause far-ranging problems at this time (remember when merely changing the WCC page titles caused stats to disappear from the pages of participating players?), so let's take this up again after

   Jul-29-20 Ding Liren vs Leko, 2020

Annie K.: Identical to K Stupak vs E Shtembuliak, 2020 .

   Jul-24-20 Annie K. chessforum

Annie K.: A fun conversation from 2016... :) <Daniel:> I’ve come to learn a lot about what sports broadcasting must be like. Actually I learned about it long before CG when I worked at a newspaper. If there is a sporting event you MUST be excited about it, from a business ...

   Jul-22-20 Biel (2020)

Annie K.: It gets worse - the chess24 intro says "In case of a tie for first place chess960 rapid games will be played", but in fact the official site specifies that the chess960 tiebreaks in question are the ACCENTUS 960 games - which have already been played on the 18th, the event's first ...

   Jul-21-20 Csom vs A Yusupov, 1982

Annie K.: The only requirement for this excellent pun is to pronounce Csom correctly. Which means, as "Chom". :)

   Jul-17-20 K Pedersen vs G F Kane, 1972

Annie K.: <jith> thank you for the always helpful directions. :) So all 12 Pedersen games we have in Chess Olympiad Final-A (1972) games are about to be reassigned from Eigil to Karl.

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Procrastinators' Club (planned)

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Oct-11-10		Russian Grandmasters: What about when you ripped off your own front door and made a desk out of it. This is the chessplayer's equivalent to shooting a a bear and making a rug out of it.

Oct-11-10		Annie K.: <Phony Benoni: <Personally, I'm not an assertive person in any event>> Isn't that an assertion? ;s Hi, and welcome to my forum. :) Yeah, it's likely that people will continue to post things on game and player pages, but still - most members visit the cg.com forum now and then, and most of them will look at their profile text now and then. And if there's a link there that says <<Biographer forum> - post suggestions for our biographers here>, or somesuch, people will remember that, next time they have something to say. It may take time, and it may not be a perfect-efficiency thing, but it <would> gain momentum in time, particularly as members who already noticed it, seeing comments posted in game and player pages, and the cg.com forum, would start directing the posters to the right place. <But I'm Mr. Pessimist> Take a number and get in line... ;) <crawf> heh - well said! <Jess: <<Howard> tells me that no good deed goes unpunished.>> And he's right, as usual. :D Incidentally, I just got somebody a Premium membership. Regards, Ms. Masochist P.S. - you slipped one by me with <dakkie>, didn't you?! You just wait... :p <Plant an obligation I'm guessing? Thanks to your handy post, I can read that story now.> Correct! :) Do read it sometime - it's excellent. <If there's any chess in it we can review it for <MooseBookForum>.> Heh - as it were, I didn't even remember this, but on my re-read just now, I found that it does indeed contain a chess reference! ;)

Oct-11-10		crawfb5: <Russian Grandmasters: What about when you ripped off your own front door and made a desk out of it. This is the chessplayer's equivalent to shooting a a bear and making a rug out of it.> Well, for starters, you don't rip off your <own> front door, as that creates a horrible draft... IRL you wouldn't even notice me until it was too late... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRyD...

Oct-11-10		Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> Could not agree more about getting some sort of feedback, especially for correction slips. The current black hole system can be very discouraging, and it's far too easy to simply not bother. As for games, I always keep a copy of any PGN I submit just to be able to check it later if necessary. But I'm not going to track corrections that way! The fact is that the admins have to respond first to what most of the members want, which is coverage of current tournaments, recent games, and new features. You must have noticed that the most frequent requests on the CGForum page are to open up discussion pages for turnaments. Database maintenance is of relative unimportance to many kibitzers. Recently, the daily puzzle had a position where White's obvious winning move was refuted by a diabolical defense. I checked a few things, and found that the defense was possible only because of an earlier typo in the game score. When I mentioned this, the vast majority of respondents thought the faulty score should remain so the kibitzes would be understandable. Sigh. Oh, <Annie K.>, sorry for intruding on your space! See what happens when you let the nitpickers in?

Oct-11-10		Annie K.: <Phony Benoni: <Oh, <Annie K.>, sorry for intruding on your space! See what happens when you let the nitpickers in?>> Yes, absolutely terrible. Keep it up. :)

Oct-11-10		Phony Benoni: <Annie K.> Oh, thanks for the welcome; just noticed that. I would like to see a biographical forum, just to have a centralized place to ask questions and exchange information. It just needs someone patient enough to keep it going.

Oct-12-10		therealbenjinathan: <Annie K.> Well done!

Oct-12-10		Russian Grandmasters: They like your <BIOGRAPHER'S NOOK> idea let's hope they actually do it. Speaking of sneaking one by... On that topic, I don't think <Mal> knows details because I haven't mentioned them to him. I will email him with information unless you've already emailed him? Let me know.

Oct-12-10		Annie K.: <Phony Benoni> you're welcome. ;) I don't think the forum would need somebody to keep it going if it's an officially appointed one, any more than the ChessBookie forum needs someone to keep it going. :) Of course, you biographers should then check it often, but I'd guess that will be easier than checking the cg.com forum for biography suggestions, as things are now. <benji> thanks. :)

Oct-12-10		Annie K.: <Jess> now you snuck a post by me! ;) I didn't tell <Mal> anything, so if you want to, go ahead. Thanks. :)

Oct-12-10		Russian Grandmasters: <I don't think the forum would need somebody to keep it going if it's an officially appointed one> That's EXACTLY right. If me or <Howard> don't tend to the <ChessBookForum> on virtually a daily basis, it languishes. The <MooseBookForum> should also be an Official CeeGee Forum and linked on the front page. <Abraham Lincoln> did help us get some <MooseBookForum> coverage on the front page with some TOP SECRET method that I don't understand, but there's no substitute for the <CEE GEE STAMP of officialnessous>.

Oct-12-10		Russian Grandmasters: Ok I'll send him a message via my new TOP SECRET email address with pertinent details.

Oct-12-10		everyone else: <AnnieK?> I hope you're not considering buying ME premium membership. Might be expensive.

Oct-12-10		Thanh Phan: Annie K I offer my most sincere thanks for your gift! It brings joy and hopes for the new year! Even if I never become a chess god lol I still love the game and those who participate in it :) My thanks once again! take care all times ~Thanh Phạn nhi~

Oct-12-10		chancho: <Annie> Not that you need to hear it, but you are good people.

Oct-12-10		Annie K.: <Jess: <officialnessous>> Sounds great! :D Heh - not planning to buy <everyone else> premium memberships just now... ;p <Thanh Phan> you're very welcome! The main thing is to enjoy the game. ~Thanh Phạn nhi~ - what does that mean, btw? :) <chancho> never hurts, thanks. :) 'People? I didn't know I had multiple personalities. Did I?' 'I didn't.' 'Me neither' 'I did.' 'You - er, I - stay out of this!' 'I don't stay out of <anything>.' 'Fine. Here's some <trouble>!' :s ;p

Oct-13-10		Thanh Phan: Annie K, that are name :)

Oct-13-10		Annie K.: <Thanh Phan> is that a two-part first name, or first name and last name? And if the latter, then which is which? And the "nhi" part? Sorry, just curious. :)

Oct-13-10		Thanh Phan: Annie K, the home name would be Nhi last name, Phan middle names then Thanh first name. With move to America change the order to Thanh first name Phan middle name then Nhi last name. Hope made it clear~

Oct-13-10		Annie K.: Yes, and very interesting, thanks! :) In my original Hungarian culture they put the family name first too (so much for "last name"! :p ), but the "first" (personal) name still comes before the "middle" name.

Oct-14-10		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> speaking of Hungarian culture, have you seen this film? <Werckmeister Harmonies> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249241... It's more of a poem than a movie. I watched it last night and it put me in to a trance. I'ts not a horror movie, although it's listed as such all over the internet. It's both sublime and unrelentingly oppressive, which is more difficult to pull off than one might realize. Also, it features the music of <Mihaly Vig >: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMlQ... (my primitive work computer won't let me put the proper Hungarian accent on Mr. Vig's first name)

Oct-14-10		Thanh Phan: <jessicafischerqueen> I bring sorrow to interrupt, but that music you found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMlQ... from Mihály Vig - Old, was simply amazing! I now use it to stretch and practice my Vovinam before the kids awake! Prior to this song I used <Nu Hong Mong Manh> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xx4... for the relaxing beat~

Oct-14-10		Annie K.: <Jess> nope, I don't know the movie. I haven't seen a movie in - um, over 5 years, I think - and I didn't follow Hungarian movies since I was a kid. The music is beautiful though - I bet you're thinking it would make a good background for a video sequence? ;) Btw, oddly enough, 'víg' (with an accented 'i') means 'merry'. <Thanh> what's Vovinam? If <Jess> and I didn't want to be "interrupted", we'd use email. :) Anything posted publicly on the site is fair game for others to comment on - I call that 'contribution', not 'interruption'. Also, yes, I read the story of Jang-geum too yesterday, and I think her avatar fits you very well. :) (<Jess>, you may be interested - it's from a South Korean TV miniseries! I posted a couple of links at <Thanh>'s forum.)

Oct-14-10		chancho: I downloaded and saw the Karate Kid. (with Will Smith's son in the starring role.) It's a good movie imo, but the kid is taught Kung Fu, not Karate. So why still call it the Karate Kid!? (Marketing decision apparently.)

Oct-14-10		dakgootje: Doesn't the kid just look <exactly> like his dad?! Same types of glances and... something I can't translate actually, that's weird. Two dictionaries translate it as 'mime art' and 'face mime', but it is neither. The Dutch word is 'mimiek' and basically means as much as 'the ability to use your facial expressions'. You can therefore have a lot of 'mimiek', or just a little -or anywhere in between. It is of course central for mimes, however it is a general word, if you will, not specifically for mimes or any related form of art. Back to the point, what I was trying to say, he uses his face in exactly the same way as Will does. They played together in 'The pursuit of Happyness' actually [yes, that is happ<y>ness].

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